The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life in his imagination, by the help of words, than by an actual survey of the scene which they describe. In this case, the poet seems to get the better of nature... The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 3351832Full view - About this book
| 1803 - 376 pages
...observations that agree with descriptions, are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...observations that agree with descriptions, are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...with descriptions are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have BO great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader fin'ds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pages
...the observations that agree with descriptions are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more livelj ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 pages
...have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than . the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn...painted more to the life in his imagination, by the belp of words, than by an actual survey of the scene which they describe. In this case, the poet seems... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...observations that agree with descriptions, are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...observations that agree with descriptions, are equally applicable to painting and statuarv. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 pages
...the observations that agree with descriptions are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
| 1824 - 268 pages
...the observations that agree with descriptions are equally applicable to painting and statuary. Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively idejis than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and... | |
| 1832 - 280 pages
...observations that agree with descriptions are equally applicable to painting and statuary. ^ Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that...often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life... | |
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